Building a Real-Time Weapon Detection System with YOLOv8
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Over the past few weeks I've been working on a computer vision side project: a real-time weapon detection system that watches a live webcam feed and raises an alarm the moment it spots something dangerous. Here's how it works, what I learned, and where it still falls short. The idea Most weapon detection demos I found online either worked on static images only, or used a generic pretrained model that wasn't great at spotting weapons specifically (understandably — COCO, the dataset most YOLO…
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- Over the past few weeks I've been working on a computer vision side project: a real-time weapon detection system that watches a live webcam feed and raises an alarm the moment it spots something dangerous.
- Here's how it works, what I learned, and where it still falls short.
- The idea Most weapon detection demos I found online either worked on static images only, or used a generic pretrained model that wasn't great at spotting weapons specifically (understandably — COCO, the dataset most YOLO….
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Coding AI shifts how fast software ships and how much human review each change needs. DEV — ML reports that over the past few weeks I've been working on a computer vision side project: a real-time weapon detection system that watches a live webcam feed and raises an alarm the moment it spots something dangerous.
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